Streamsounds’ Dakota Bradley Teams With American Red Cross Fire Mission

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dakota bradley name on itStreamsound Records’ singer/songwriter Dakota Bradley is partnering with the American Red Cross as Global Ambassador for their mission to reduce fire deaths and injuries by 25 percent.

The cause hits close to home for the 21-year-old. He grew up in St. Louis and moved to Nashville at the age of 16 after his family lost everything in a house fire.

To kick off the yearlong giving campaign, Bradley will donate $0.50 to the American Red Cross for every digital purchase of “Name On It” sold between June 23, 2015 and Sept. 30, 2015. Available here.

“Losing my home in a fire was devastating. I am honored to partner with the American Red Cross in hopes to prevent similar tragedies, as well as a way to help fire victims,” says Bradley.

Bradley is working on an album with Grammy-winning producer and Streamsound co-owner Byron Gallimore and superstar Tim McGraw.

MusicRowPics: Clark Manson Introduces Debut Single/Video

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IMG_5549Country music newcomer Clark Manson stopped by MusicRow’s offices to share his new single and music video, “Track 9,” due out July 13 from ole Music.

Chris Bandi co-wrote the title with producer Jason Massey (Kelsea Ballerini) including lyrics about songs on mixed CDs, Deana Carter’s “Strawberry Wine” and leaving your hometown.

“This is the first time I’ve recorded a song I didn’t write,” said Manson. “I was like a radio listener when I heard it for the first time—rather than thinking it was a good song because I had been in a writing room for hours working on it. I’m really excited about it.”

Manson plays around 150 shows annually, most recently surrounding a radio tour to MusicRow stations in Tennessee, Arkansas and Missouri.

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Pictured (L-R): MusicRow’s Kelsey Grady, Eric T. Parker, Sherod Robertson, Clark Manson, Troy Stephenson and Sarah Skates

The music video for “Track 9” was filmed two weeks ago in Nashville’s Percy Warner park, featuring Manson and his real-life girlfriend. “The director had a high budget shoot the next day and he offered to use the camera and lens for ours too,” said manager Pete Olson, who joined Manson for the visit.

Manson started working with Olson last summer when he moved to Nashville. The president of Ohio-based Variety attractions had been developing the young artist and adding him to premier slots at the festivals they produce. Manson’s current camp includes WME and ole.

Reba Unloads Reported $22.5 Million Beverly Hills Spread

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Reba's ex-Beverly Park spread. Photo: Los Angeles Times.

Reba’s ex-Beverly Park spread. Photo: Los Angeles Times.

Reba has left 90210. Well, at least she’s sold her 9,200 sq. ft. estate in California’s gated Beverly Park circle for a reported $22.5 million.

According to Variety the sellers, Reba McEntire and her husband/manager Narvel Blackstock, listed the property “in a hush-hush off-market deal,” with the buyer represented by Matt and Josh Altman at Douglas Elliman.

The magazine also reports the spread includes nearly half a dozen bedrooms, seven bathrooms, formal living and dining rooms, a den/billiards room, an eat-in kitchen, a family room with built-in wet bar, lighted tennis court, spa, pond and swimming pool.

Records indicate the entertainment duo acquired the 1.8-acre spread in 2003 for $9 million.

McEntire and Blackstock maintain their property in Gallatin, Tenn. and a vacation home in Cancun, Mexico.

Photo: Los Angeles Times.

Photo: Los Angeles Times.

Gretchen Peters, Shane McAnally, Jim Collins Play NaSHOF Benefit

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The Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame (NaSHOF) hosted its second Hits From The Hall show on Tuesday, June 23, at City Winery Nashville.

Hall of Fame member Gretchen Peters (“Independence Day,” “You Don’t Even Know Who I Am,” “The Secret Of Life”) was joined by special guests Jim Collins ( “The Good Stuff”  “Are You Gonna Kiss Me Or Not” “Big Green Tractor”) and Shane McAnally  (“Better Dig Two,” “Merry Go ‘Round,” “American Kids”).

Proceeds from the event benefit NaSHOF.

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Jim Collins performs at City Winery.

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Gretchen Peters performs at NaSHOF fundraiser.

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Pictured (L-R): Shane McAnally, Pat Alger, Jim Collins, Gretchen Peters and NaSHOF’s Mark Ford.

 

MTSU Students Pitch Songs to Publishers, Film at Bonnaroo

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Middle Tennessee State University’s student songwriters had a chance recently to showcase their music at a private event hosted by ASCAP for Nashville music publishers. Student writers Nick Carpenter, Zach Russell, Kyle Crownover, and the group Maybe April performed for publishing reps from Sony/ATV, Warner Chappell, BMG, Sea Gayle Music, Creative Nation, and Round Hill Music.

Pictured (L-R): top row- Nick Carpenter, Kyle Crownover, ASCAP VP LeAnn Phelan, Zach Russell, MTSU Songwriting Concentration Coordinator Odie Blackmon bottom row- Maybe April’s Alaina Stacey, Kristen Castro, and Katy Bishop

Pictured (L-R): Top row- Nick Carpenter, Kyle Crownover, ASCAP VP LeAnn Phelan, Zach Russell, MTSU Songwriting Concentration Coordinator Odie Blackmon; Bottom row- Maybe April’s Alaina Stacey, Kristen Castro, and Katy Bishop

In other MTSU news, the university partnered with Bonnaroo for the second year and debuted “The Truck,” a $1.7 million video production and editing facility on-site that was run completely by students. Forty mass communications students produced multimedia content from this year’s four-day event and got a taste of the fast-paced world of live music coverage thanks to the partnership Dean of Mass Communication Ken Paulson brokered with the annual festival.

“Bringing MTSU students to work at Bonnaroo reflects the full range of media and entertainment you’ll find in our college,” said Paulson. “They are getting their first taste of what’s it’s like to cover a world-class music festival.”

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Ken Paulson at Bonnaroo.

 

Industry Pics: Cam With CRB, Maria Pallante Visit, AFM Honors Randall Franks, BLA Signing

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Cam Plays For CRB Board

Arista Nashville’s Cam treated the CRB board members to a special luncheon show Thursday in Nashville. 

Pictured (L-R): Charlie Morgan (WLHK Indianapolis Market Manager), Lesly Simon (Arista Nashville, VP Radio Promotions), Cam, Clay Hunnicutt (EVP & GM National Programming Platforms iHeartMedia), Bill Mayne (Executive Director of CRB/CRS)

Pictured (L-R): Charlie Morgan (WLHK Indianapolis Market Manager), Lesly Simon (Arista Nashville, VP Radio Promotions), Cam, Clay Hunnicutt (EVP & GM National Programming Platforms iHeartMedia), Bill Mayne (Executive Director of CRB/CRS)

The Recording Academy Hosts Roundtable With Martina McBride, Maria Pallante

The Recording Academy welcomed Maria Pallante, Register of Copyrights and Director of the United States Copyright Office, to Nashville earlier this week (June 24) to meet with music creators including Martina McBride and the Nashville Creator Roundtable. They discussed issues surrounding music legislation currently before Congress. The Roundtable meeting was created to enable lawmakers to better grasp the challenges that music creators face in music communities around the country.

Attendees (l-r): Matt Maher, Kevin Griffin, Brandon Heath, Laura Segura Mueller, Maria Pallante, Bill Reynolds, John McBride, Martina McBride, Todd Dupler, Alicia Warwick, Jeff Balding and Shannon Sanders. Photo Credit: Photo Courtesy of The Recording Academy® /Wireimage.com © 2015 Photographed by: Frederick Breedon

Pictured (L-R): Matt Maher, Kevin Griffin, Brandon Heath, Laura Segura Mueller, Maria Pallante, Bill Reynolds, John McBride, Martina McBride, Todd Dupler, Alicia Warwick, Jeff Balding and Shannon Sanders.
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Randall Franks Marks 25 Years With AFM

Musician/producer Dave Pomeroy, American Federation of Musicians Local 257 president, recently recognized entertainer and fiddler Randall Franks, (“Officer Randy Goode” from TV’s In the Heat of the Night,) for achieving 25 years of membership in the Nashville Association of Musicians. Franks became part of the union when he first performed on the Grand Ole Opry in 1984. Franks also surpassed 25 years in the Screen Actors Guild now merged as SAG-AFTRA.

Dave Pomeroy and Randall Franks

Pictured (L-R): Dave Pomeroy and Randall Franks

Justin Forrest Signs With BLA

Buddy Lee Attractions has announced the addition of indie artist/guitar virtuoso Justin Forrest to its roster. The talented 22-year-old first picked up the guitar at age seven and made his way into the Nashville music scene three years ago by winning the SESAC Next Project Showcase.

Pictured (L-R): Mike Meade, Justin Forrest, Grayson Flatness

Pictured (L-R): Responsible agent Mike Meade, Justin Forrest, Grayson Flatness

 

Holograms Generate Big Potential for Estates: Patsy Cline To Tour

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Patsy Cline

In 2016, Patsy Cline will appear via hologram for full concert performances. The project was approved by Cline’s widower Charles Dick and will be executed by California-based Hologram USA for a show complete with commentary, audience interaction and appearances by present day A-list talent.

“We chose Patsy as our first Country hologram project, and our first female hologram project, for a reason: she was a pioneer who influenced generations of singers around the globe,” said Alki David, CEO of Hologram USA.

“We are very glad to share Patsy and her music with this new technology and format and honored by Hologram USA’s choice to have her as the first,” said Charles Dick on behalf of the family. “I am sure her fans, old and new, will be thrilled.”

The show will include such hits as “Walking After Midnight,” “I Fall to Pieces” and “Crazy.”

Since Cline’s tragic death in an airplane crash in 1963 she has continued to be one of the top catalog artists for UMusic/MCA/Decca with record sales in excess of 25 million copies. She has also been honored with a U.S. postage stamp, a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, a Grammy Award and was the subject of a feature movie starring Jessica Lange and Ed Harris.

The first woman to be inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame will join previously deceased celebrities from the fields of music, comedy and sports to be brought back to life via Hologram USA licensing deals, including Liberace, Buddy Holly, Ray Charles, and many more.

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MusicRow explored the rising potential of holograms in a print article in the MusicRow Awards issue (June/July 2015). Subscribe through July 2015 to receive your free issue. An excerpt, below:

“There’s really no such thing as an actual hologram,” says Scott Scovill, reigning CMA-SRO video director of the year, and owner of Moo TV. “You can’t have light floating in space. But there are certainly ways to fake it.”

Whether the source image originates from computer-generated imagery (CGI) or from talent virtually teleported from a camera lens to stages around the world, projectors are able to beam images that appear, at least to the audience, extremely lifelike. A technique developed in the Victorian Era to reflect objects as part of magical illusions is still in use today. Applied to today’s technology, the method uses mirrors to reflect 3D-looking images cast from a projector. In recent years, deceased performers Michael Jackson (Billboard Music Awards, 2014) and Tupac Shakur (Cochella festival, 2012) have been recreated with CGI technology and transferred on stage. Such full head-to-toe CGI recreations can cost in excess of $200k. Using a less-advanced rotoscoping technique, Elvis Presley was able to take the stage on American Idol (2007) when editors overlayed preexisting footage onto a body double.

Recently, Kacey Musgraves and Florida Georgia Line have had their lumens beamed live from Nashville to California to appear on ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel Live, utilizing patented technology from the California-based company Hologram USA.

Those projections are able to span the length of a concert stage or be condensed to fit inside a box truck mobile stage or miniaturized road case display. Mariah Carey was transported to five European countries for Christmas performances in 2011 using those mobile configurations.

For major tours, Scovill developed a pioneering and cost-effective alternative to projection. His method utilizes high definition LCD screens with tinted pixels, which alters the function of the viewer’s iris so the edges of the screen are not perceived.

“About eight years ago we developed this technique for Brad Paisley with Alison Krauss (‘Whiskey Lullaby’), then for Carrie Underwood (‘Remind Me’) and most recently for Jason Aldean and Kelly Clarkson (‘Don’t You Wanna Stay’). It is the only system like it that I am aware of.”

The outlook for posthumous performance revenue may find entertainers of today storing their own high definition polygons to touch the lives of fans even after their own life is over. With this technology, [Patsy Cline], Hank Williams, Johnny Cash, Tammy Wynette and Minnie Pearl could be appearing in a city near you, soon. Or perhaps present-day artists may enjoy sitting on the beach while their hologram is hard at work performing around the world.

–Eric T. Parker

After the 48th Annual CMA Awards, Florida Georgia Line performs "Anything Goes" and "Sun Daze" live from the CMA Theater in Nashville, which was broadcast onto Jimmy Kimmel's outdoor stage via hologram to Hollywood, Calif. Photo: Randy Holmes/ABC

After the 48th Annual CMA Awards, Florida Georgia Line performs “Anything Goes” and “Sun Daze” live from the CMA Theater in Nashville, which was broadcast via hologram onto Jimmy Kimmel’s outdoor stage in Hollywood, Calif. Photo: Randy Holmes/ABC

(Top):Kelly Clarkson preps hologram-like video for "Don't You Wanna Stay" with Scott Scovill. (Bottom): Inner workings of one of Scovill's two high definition LCD screens, created for concert tours by Moo TV. Photos: Moo TV

(Top):Kelly Clarkson preps hologram-like video for “Don’t You Wanna Stay” with Scott Scovill. (Bottom): Inner workings of one of Scovill’s two high definition LCD screens, created for concert tours by Moo TV. Photos: Moo TV

True Public Relations Inks Florida Georgia Line

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FGL florida georgia line 2015LTRUE PR Logoos Angeles based True Public Relations has signed Florida Georgia Line for representation.

The company owned by Marcel Pariseau also represents Miranda Lambert, as well as a slew of top Hollywood actors.

Pariseau is a PR vet with more than twenty years of experience. His client list includes luminaries Catherine Zeta-Jones, Scarlett Johansson, Heather Locklear, Alyssa Milano, Jennifer Love Hewitt, Bill Maher, Patricia Heaton, Melissa Etheridge, Rachel Bilson, Alex Kingston, Rachel Bilson, Brittany Snow, and Kristen Bell. The company currently represents HBO’s Real Time with Bill Maher.

Cece Yorke and Sarah Fuller also work at the full-service entertainment publicity firm.

Weekly Chart Report (6/26/15)

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SiriusXM To Pay For Pre-1972 Music; Labels Win $210 Million Settlement

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siriusxm 2015 logoSirius XM Holdings Inc. has agreed to a legal settlement with independent and major record companies for its use of recordings created before 1972.

The satellite radio broadcaster will pay $210 million to plaintiffs ABKCO Music & Records, Capitol Records, Sony Music Entertainment, UMG Recordings, and Warner Music Group. The case is titled Capitol Records LLC et al vs Sirius XM Radio Inc.

The settlement provides a nationwide resolution for SiriusXM’s use of the plaintiffs’ pre-1972 recordings.

“This is a great step forward for all music creators,” said Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) Chairman & CEO Cary Sherman. “Music has tremendous value, whether it was made in 1970 or 2015. We hope others take note of this important agreement and follow SiriusXM’s example.”

SoundExchange President and CEO Michael Huppe said, “While it unfortunately required a lawsuit to make Sirius XM do the right thing, we are pleased that these legacy artists are finally getting the respect—and compensation—they deserve for the use of their music. SoundExchange consistently champions the right for all artists to be paid fairly across all platforms, regardless of when their music was recorded.”